Provincial police have laid charges in a highway homicide that killed one woman on the QEW over the holiday weekend.

Provincial police have laid charges in a highway homicide that killed one woman on the QEW over the holiday weekend.

A collision reconstruction for a struck pedestrian quickly turned into a crime scene investigation on the Niagara-bound QEW near Eastport Rd. Saturday morning.

Circumstances surrounding the death, such as how – or if – the victim knew the driver were not immediately known, but police say the female pedestrian, identified as Amber Lynn Wilkinson, 32, of Hamilton, had been a passenger in the vehicle that ran her over.

The car pulled over, Wilkinson got out, and “was for unknown reasons run over by the vehicle as it sped off,” police allege in a news release. Officials say the collision took place on the QEW near Burlington St. in Hamilton.

The OPP Highway Safety unit was called around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, and the victim was taken to Hamilton General Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Part of the Burlington Skyway bridge was closed for almost eight hours Saturday and briefly on Sunday for the police investigation.

The driver, Billy Gladysz, 32, of Oakville, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He remains in police custody.